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Angular (with TypeScript) Workshop

Angular brings together some of the most promising new technologies in the web space like Components, Observables, Window.fetch all the while bundling together a set of “best” practices like dependency injection in one development stack. If you are looking to build powerful single page applications then Angular is your friend. In this workshop we will start from the ground up, and build our way through a simple application that will let us explore the various constructs, and the familiarize ourselves with some of the new terminology in Angular.

This session will focus on Angular 12

In this workshop we will get down and dirty with Angular. In this workshop we will start with the very basics of how to bootstrap our Angular application, and work slowly towards making REST-ful AJAX requests to a backend. List of topics include

  • Creating Angular components
  • The nuts and bolts of NgModule
  • Creating component hierarchies
  • Using the Angular style guide for naming and project layout
  • Directives like *ngFor
  • @Inputs and @Outputs
  • Services
  • Dependency Injection
  • The component lifecycle
  • Ajax using Http and Observables
  • Smart vs. Dumb components
  • Routes, routing, and the router-outlet

Along the way we we prescribe to some established practices like directory structure, naming, and some tricks to make our development life easier.


About Raju Gandhi

Raju is a software craftsman with almost 20 years of hands-on experience scoping, architecting, designing, implementing full stack applications.

He provides a 360 view of the development cycle, is proficient in a variety of programming languages and paradigms, experienced with software development methodologies, as well an expert in infrastructure and tooling.

He has long been in the pursuit of hermeticism across the development stack by championing immutability during development (with languages like Clojure), deployment (leveraging tools like Docker and Kubernetes), and provisioning and configuration via code (toolkits like Ansible, Terraform, Packer, everything-as-code).

Raju is a published author, internationally known public speaker and trainer.
Raju can be found on Twitter as @looselytyped.
In his spare time, you will find Raju reading, playing with technology, or spending time with his wonderful (and significantly better) other half.

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